Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even […]

And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all […]

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age….. And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house….. Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto […]

The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. From what I read on various Christian forums, I get the impression that some Christians have become so used […]

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; Jeremiah’s answer to Zedekiah might well have been the blunt, “Because that is what the Lord […]